Saturday, January 24, 2026

GET ME REWRITE: Robin Vos and the boys throw a hissy after Supreme Court decision on Knowles-Nelson land buy

 
Headline:  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1/22/2026

Laura Schulte reports:
The Knowles-Nelson Stewardship program — named for conservation-minded Wisconsin governors Warren Knowles and Gaylord Nelson — began in 1989 and has been renewed each decade. It uses borrowing to pay for purchases to conserve land, easements to protect land against development and projects such as ramps, trails and bridges that help the public access public lands. 
Republican leadership refused the reauthorization of the program in the 2025-2027 budget in response to a state Supreme Court ruling that said the Joint Finance Committee of the Legislature could no longer use anonymous objections to halt or slow down stewardship purchases. The 6-1 ruling sided with Evers and will likely continue to have a far-reaching impact on legislative committees for years to come.  [emphasis added]
The program could face an end on June 30, 2026, if a bill to reauthorize it is not passed in time.

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2023
Wisconsin GOP leadership continues to drag their heels on addressing climate change.  (11/23)

2022
Dear City of Marshfield/Wood County Wisconsin residents, The GOP doesn't give a shit about your PFAs problem. Think about that when voting this November.  (5/29)
Dear Wausau, Ask these GOP clowns what their long-term solution to Wisconsin's PFAs problem is?  (4/25)
Regulating PFAs: Welcome to Catch-22.  (4/13)

2021
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Day 35 of DOJ sitting on Epstein Files: Abjectly servile Pam Bondi only following orders from White House headquarters

 
Headline:  Daily Beast, 1/24/2026

William Vaillancourt reports:
Pam Bondi is defending President Donald Trump’s effort to keep the files on his alleged mishandling of classified documents from public scrutiny. 
A court filing on Friday stated that the attorney general believes that Volume II of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report on Trump’s potentially criminal actions should remain hidden from the American people who elected him. 
Donald Trump Bondi, 60, “has determined that Volume II is an internal deliberative communication that is privileged and confidential and should not be released outside the Department of Justice,” government lawyers said in the filing.

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What are Trump and his lackeys at DOJ and FBI hiding?  (12/2)

November 2025. 
Why is Donald Trump acting like a cornered rat? ("But his emails" edition).  (11/13)
September 2025

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July 2025
More evidence that Donald Trump is in full panic mode (tanking poll numbers edition).  (7/25)
Donald Trump to Jeff Epstein in October 1997:  "YOU ARE THE GREATEST!".  (7/25)
The Epstein Files: "A pal is a wonderful thing" (Joined at the Hip Once Upon a Time, chapter 5).  (7/19)
The Epstein Files:  Donald Trump as con artist AND sketch artist (Joined at the Hip Once Upon a Time, chapter 4). (7/18)
The Epstein Files:  Trump doesn't understand, but everyone else does (Joined at the Hip Once Upon a Time, chapter 3).  (7/16)
And no doubt for some very good reasons (Joined at the Hip Once Upon a Time, chapter 2).  (7/15)

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Friday, January 23, 2026

White House Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security Stephen Miller is very proud of himself today

 
Welcome to Trump's America

Photo and headline:  Washington Post, 1/22/2026

Philip Kennicott reports:
A viral image of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos shows the boy in a blue knit hat with white bunny ears and pompoms, standing with a blank look on his face, staring at the back of a truck. Liam and his father were captured by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in Minnesota on Tuesday, and both are now detained in San Antonio, more than 1,200 miles from Liam’s home, his school, his friends and most of his family. 
School officials in Minnesota say that the prekindergarten student was used “as bait” by ICE, in an apparent attempt to gain access to the adults inside the private house where he once lived. That act, the use of a boy too young to understand the political game in which he became a pawn, mirrors in a perverse and deeply disturbing way the power of the photograph. The photograph stirs empathy and compassion, the same emotions that ICE agents apparently used to entice adults into making themselves vulnerable to capture.  [emphasis added]

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